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decimation: I don't get the jews. why do they care about jews? They are just a small subset of europeans among the unwashed masses of europeans
BingoBoingo: decimation> ah, so 'favored ally' of the fdr socialists running things in that era << Not so limited. To Understand the West you have to understand their hard ons, Jews and Isis.
decimation: ah, so 'favored ally' of the fdr socialists running things in that era
assbot: Uber Driver Charged for Bashing a Passenger In the Head With a Hammer
asciilifeform: puerto rico is one such group today
asciilifeform: if you are not part of one of these groups - you will not be in the running for any handouts in usa.
asciilifeform: decimation: approximately - food stamps are given to groups, rather than people. not formally, of course - but in practice.
decimation: sabu was a puerto rican - an island that raises living off usg largess to an art form
BingoBoingo: Don't forget Thermos and Nefario...
BingoBoingo: IS that match/mismatch an indicator of acting or otherwise?
asciilifeform: and then there is the undocumented talmud used by usg bureaucrats to determine who qualifies for lifetime pensions.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The differentiation is indeed difficult. I dunno that his flavor exists in the new DSM V
asciilifeform: i have often direly envied the man his schizophrenia - or acting skills, as the case may be.
asciilifeform: so we do not actually know how much he is truly batshit, and how much - is just playing the necessary role.
asciilifeform: decimation: 'crazy' is the reason he actually got to work! ☟︎
BingoBoingo: of course he is, but who said that is necessarily wrong?
BingoBoingo has kind of come to appreciate the crazy of TempleOS
assbot: xkcd: Tesla Coil
BingoBoingo: reeses: https://xkcd.com/298/ << Actually dreamed a lucrative tablet game last night. Background is a topless redhead. Foreground is "Space Invaders" goal is to keep falling apples from covering the nipples.
decimation: yeah I remember that sussman quote, it is depressing
BingoBoingo: decimation: Only when MIcrosoft, Red Hat, or Oracle touches it.
assbot: It it just me who is seeing a cowardly surrender to cultural decay here? From th... | Hacker News
decimation: something like how xml is written in plain text but ususually completely opaque
asciilifeform: 'You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts.' ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: sussman, surrendering to decay: ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: never needed this sugar
asciilifeform: that aspect - never appealed to me
asciilifeform: but this is neither here nor there.
BingoBoingo: decimation: The beauty was you could program without the quotes, until the PPC port
asciilifeform: the abominable 'english-like' scripting language lured various people who thought they could never stomach programming into trying
decimation: the closest thing in modern mac os is the 'automater' tool, but it's not maintained
decimation: yeah hypercard enabled 'regular humans' to actually 'program'
BingoBoingo also used hypercard astonishingly to keep my dick wet, organizing girls into nights of the week.
asciilifeform: the totality thereof.
asciilifeform: decimation: the reason - understandability.
decimation: I remember trying hypercard in school, but I was introduced too late - didn't understand why it was more compelling than hypertext
asciilifeform: (i haven't any for it. i actually associate the environment it ran on with school, which was a misery)
asciilifeform: or that. nostalgia.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I tended to like it because in Highschool I had Hypercard, a giant TI-89, ot Compaq dos
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: You have to understand Middle Western understated racism is a more dangerous creature than Angola prison for a reason.
asciilifeform: generally, they like it 'because pretty ux buttons'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: virtually none of my readers showed any signs of liking it for the same reason i did.
Duffer1: oh damn i'm sure those "i am darren wilson" bracelets didn't help the situation much lol
BingoBoingo: Following the Anglos on anything has never been a good move though. Ever since the vowel shift turned the Britons into Barbarians at least.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HEqagVO9g << possibly interesting to you
BingoBoingo: "Officer" in quotes because in the Western tradition the roles of "officer" and enlisted are different.
Duffer1: good things there was video of it
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: Notice how quickly that "officer" was indicted for something?
decimation: yeah the old xilinx part
asciilifeform: decimation: this is discussed on my site.
BingoBoingo: Saw that one.
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Duffer1: seen this one yet Bingo? (turn it down) http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-south-carolina-state-trooper-charged-over-traffic-stop-shooting-n211156
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BingoBoingo: Duffer1: They never really stopped
decimation: it is because of the dynamic range allowed in a single blob
asciilifeform: even the gate libraries used by extant semiconductor fab houses would have to be thrown.
BingoBoingo: So... the ferguson thing looks like it might turn into open war...
decimation: oh yeah, so I was thinking about why people use floating point to answer mp's question
asciilifeform: likewise, for dataflow cpu fabric (the only truly reasonable way to build a computer) - existing logic synthesis methods are unsuitable.
asciilifeform: i've argued in the past that you have to ditch... binary. if you want to be rid of the 'floating point' abomination. ☟︎
decimation: I would throw ddr in the trash
asciilifeform: bus topology
asciilifeform: you'd have to come up with your own... dram
asciilifeform: forget even this
decimation: ah, you would have to rewrite bezzle wintel software stack
asciilifeform: divide the r&d and production cost by that figure. that's how much each unit would have to cost to... break even.
asciilifeform: if you had a truly clean break with the age of turdware -
decimation: although that has not stopped arm
decimation: one would become an enemy of the wintel bezzle lords
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform could easily make, and would work for room & board << Because you love the idea of it
BingoBoingo: why it would be quite expensive today - i'll leave as an exercise for anyone still awake. << People who could make it, exceedingly expensive today if hired for the task of making it.
asciilifeform: why it would be quite expensive today - i'll leave as an exercise for anyone still awake.
asciilifeform: then - the sheer quantity of logic necessary.
asciilifeform: and it would be far more expensive today!
asciilifeform: the other interesting observation is that lm in 1980s was expensive for far different reason than it would be today
decimation: rich princes being famous for their fickle tastes
asciilifeform: go and try market a scanning electron microscope for consumer market.
asciilifeform: 'artist picked the wrong medici'
asciilifeform: (withdrawal of the infinite usg money it relied on - directly, and indirectly - through the major clients being usg ops)
decimation: what is the 'bullet hole'?
asciilifeform: while ignoring the bullet hole in its head
asciilifeform: it is hilarious to read about all of the various nicks, bruises, paper cuts found on the corpse of symbolics corp.
asciilifeform: toyota may in some sense with it could 'pave over' bentley, but reality does not care about this
decimation: plus symbolics decided to waste their money on california real estate or some such craziness
decimation: ibm/wintel happened to pave over their niche though
asciilifeform: it made no attempt to compete with, e.g., ibm anything
asciilifeform: decimation: it is important to understand that lm was a specialist instrument - like the most elaborate electron microscope.
decimation: yeah the lisp machine was carried by only a precious handful of people, who were the enemies of ibm and everyone else who wanted to muscle into the space
asciilifeform: swordsman can trip on banana peel
decimation: well, one could argue that's why the lisp machine died out, right?
asciilifeform: and if you really wish to know which 'swordsman' is more comfortable with his tool - let god of war decide.
asciilifeform: subjective only in the sense that people vary in size
asciilifeform: like the difference between a shirt that fits and one which does not
asciilifeform: when we are talking about a sword that a man can swing - or a computer system that 'fits' inside a single brain comfortably - this is a fundamental difference.
asciilifeform: ^ that is the kind of thing i mean by -understandable-.
asciilifeform: then - somebody comes up with metallurgy, creates sword that one man can comfortably swing.
asciilifeform: even the best swings would be from among a very small set of simple strokes.
asciilifeform: and they would work in synchrony, but of course imperfectly - and occasionally at cross purposes
asciilifeform: that needed a squadron of a dozen or more wielders, to swing it at all